Printing With NylonX  

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Are you using a glue stick on the print bed? I have not used that filament, but with Taulman 910 nylon I have to use a glue stick to get the first layer to stay down.

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Yes, I used many diferents adhesives. Glue stick helped a little. But still warping, I´m using painters tape now.

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This is the piece, printed with tape. It did better than other adhesives, but still bending a little.

This is the first layer

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When did you apply the glue? I have heard some people obtain different (better) results depending on if the glue is applied to a heated bed versus a cold bed.

Also, have you tried upping the bed temp a bit too? Say to around 90?

Also, what retraction settings (length, lift z, speed) are you using to achieve your (otherwise) good prints? 🙂

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I apply the glue when the bed is hot. And used 100°C for heatbed too.

My retraction parameters:
Retraction length: 0.8mm
Retraction speed: 35mm/s

I used more adhesives. It got better, it´s nearly flat. Maybe the filament just cannot get that results. Against the logic, parts with bigger surface shows more bending than parts with less surface. I´m going to look if the nozzle is a little tigth to the bed.

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Yeah, maybe that's as good as it will get 🙂

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I have only printed a few things with NylonX but have been printing on glass with glue stick and it has been working really well.

-David

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Hi , I´m printing with NylonX (Nylon + Carbon fiber), and i cannot get the piece well glued to the heatbed.

haven't tried nylonX, but I have used colorfabb cf nylon, and 3dxtech cf-petg and gf-petg with no adhesion issues and no brims whatsoever. The colorfabb honestly prints fine with no bed heat at all, the petg needs maybe 60c max.

it sounds like your part isn't adhering to the brim well enough if the brim doesn't lift at all.

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I have only printed 3 times with NylonX, i use a glue stick (PRUSA) and i have kapton tape on top of my build sheet. i have had issues with some PLA not sticking well to the PRUSA build sheet so I put kapton tape on top. works well. glue stick applied when cold. 65-70 degree bed, 270 degree extruder temp.

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Hey man, Send me an email, [email protected]

I have mastered nylonX on all my prusa machines and along with other machines. I can give you all of my profiles and recommend you an option for a new build surface. This was years and years of trial and error, so trust me when I say I highly doubt anyone is printing this stuff cleaner than me haha! but in all seriousness I have printed nearly 15 kilos of nylon X and bed adhesion is completely nailed at this point. Would love to help you or anyone out who is struggling with this stuff.

Thanks

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Hey man, Send me an email, [email protected]

I have mastered nylonX on all my prusa machines and along with other machines. I can give you all of my profiles and recommend you an option for a new build surface. This was years and years of trial and error, so trust me when I say I highly doubt anyone is printing this stuff cleaner than me haha! but in all seriousness I have printed nearly 15 kilos of nylon X and bed adhesion is completely nailed at this point. Would love to help you or anyone out who is struggling with this stuff.

Thanks

What was the surface and what were your settings?

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Hey man, Send me an email, [email protected]

I have mastered nylonX on all my prusa machines and along with other machines. I can give you all of my profiles and recommend you an option for a new build surface. This was years and years of trial and error, so trust me when I say I highly doubt anyone is printing this stuff cleaner than me haha! but in all seriousness I have printed nearly 15 kilos of nylon X and bed adhesion is completely nailed at this point. Would love to help you or anyone out who is struggling with this stuff.

Thanks

Your valued experience would be useful in the forum if you could post some of your settings and observations.

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What is the expectation for this part? Nylon is pretty flexible material. This parts looks like you could bend/twist it pretty easy with your hands.

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What is the expectation for this part? Nylon is pretty flexible material. This parts looks like you could bend/twist it pretty easy with your hands.

NylonX reportedly gets pretty stiff.

https://toms3d.org/2016/11/29/carbon-fiber-matterhackers-nylonx/

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NylonX reportedly gets pretty stiff.

Agree. NylonX is much stiffer then regular Nylon. Anyway, look at the part. To me it looks pretty good printed and it should be still slightly bendable. That's why my question about the expectation. I don't think you could make it as stiff as metal/aluminum part.

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I want to use it for amature high power rocket parts.

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here are a couple of pics of my first NylonX work. 1/2 of a beer bottle holder.

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@tony-d7

Could you send me the info on print settings for Nylonx. I what to start trying it out but it would help if I didn’t have to go through the trial and error phase. My email is [email protected]

Thanks

Jim

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Two things. Buy a Garolite bed (there is a manufacturer on etsy) or make your own with a steel bed and a Garolite finish. I use mine COLD, otherwise Nylon sticks TOO MUCH.

Second thing: build some sort of "chamber" around the printer.

All your NylonX problems will go away. They have for me at least. Obviously print slow-ish.